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C# C# Basics (Retired) Console I/O Receiving Input

Posted by Jackson Whitfield
Jackson Whitfield
2,621 Points

String variable " "?

Why do you not need quotation marks around your string?

Teacher : string entry = System.Console.ReadLine(); Also why is it not readLine?

What I am asking : string entry = "System.Console.Readline()";

Hope I made sense!

1 Answer

Peter Venkman
Peter Venkman
6,275 Points
Peter Venkman
Peter Venkman
6,275 Points

System.Console.ReadLine() is a static method that returns a string, it is not a string itself.

You are declaring entry as a string, and assigning it the string returned from the ReadLine method.

The capitalization on ReadLine is a C# convention, this varies between different programming languages.